New Delhi, Aug. 11 -- Congress MP K Suresh on Monday called for an inquiry by Air India and the Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) following a precautionary diversion of flight AI2455 from Thiruvananthapuram to Delhi due to a suspected technical issue.

Suresh was one of the 160 passengers travelling to Delhi from Chennai on the Air India flight that diverted.

The Congress MP said that the pilot had announced that there was a communication issue with the radar system.

"Yesterday, at 7:45 PM, the Air India flight started from Trivandrum airport to Delhi... After 1 hour and 10 minutes, the pilot announced that there was a communication problem with the radar system, so we had to go back to Chennai," he said.

The MP further desc...